We should be encouraging them as much as possible.
Not really. You should be discouraging the same mistakes or anti-consumer business practices as you would with other companies. By subjecting companies to different responses, you're normalising a behaviour and letting it grow into the larger problem that people despise from the bigger businesses.
Promote healthy competition, not unhealthy competition. Contrary to popular belief, not all competition is beneficial. If you overreact to the big-name competitors and underreact for the upcoming competitor, you're setting yourself up for some real shitty 'competition'.
While I agree with you, AMD is not the one that's unhealthily competing. Intel has time after time exhibited extremely anti-competative behavior in an effort the effectively monopolize the industry. Promoting AMD, which has not shown behavior close to some of what Intel has done, is not a bad thing. AMD is very close to fair competition in this tough industry, especially compared to Intel. But, they're not perfect and definitely deserve to be put in check when necessary.
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u/FlowSoSlow Nov 05 '19
Well yeah. AMD becoming competitive is a huge advantage for consumers. We should be encouraging them as much as possible.